At last week's 2011 TDWG (Biodiversity Information Standards) meeting the TDWG Phylogenetic Standards interest group staged a 1.5-day workshop entitled "Steps towards a Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA) Standard" (organized by Nico Cellinese, Hilmar Lapp, Enrico Pontelli, and Arlin Stoltzfus).  The workshop had 17 attendees and 2 remote participants.The idea of the workshop was to make some forward progress on a MIAPA standard, focusing especially on issues relevant to biodiversity studies.  On the first day, there were some informational presentations, followed by discussion.  The aim of the discussion was to decide on tasks for the second day.  On the second day, the group split up into parallel clusters to come up with tentative check-lists. This was followed by a session to generate a reconciled check-list, and then another session that provided responses to some scoping questions.  In addition, remote participant Chris Taylor provided some mock-ups of a checklist entry form, based on ISA-tools.  

Overall, it was a productive meeting that generated momentum.  Hopefully participants will capitalize on this momentum in the coming months.